[Ads-l] antedating "ufologist"

[Peter Reitan]

November 1957: Ufologists. Evening Sun (Baltimore), November 13, 1957, page 43 (also in Detroit Free Press, same date, page 1).


"Saucer clubs cover the globe . . . .  They meet to debate mystery sightings, attend lectures by visiting ufologists (experts on unidentified flying objects)." [END]


May 1958: "UFO-ologist". Tucson Daily Citizen, May 3, 1958, page 2.


Photo caption: "Saucer-Eyed.  With an eye to the sky, UFO-ologists Wayne S. Aho (left) and Reinhold O. Schmidt scan the Tucson skies for flying saucers after lecturing here on the UFO's (unidentified flying objects)." [END]

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Ooh, here's a very slight antedating (May, 1959) for "ufologist" ...

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-October/113675.html

-- Bonnie

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 1963: OED
>
> 1960, transcript of radio show _Washington Viewpoint_ (Dec. 20), in David
> Michael Jacobs _History of the UFO Controversy in America_ (Bloomington:
> Indiana U. P., 1975) 176: [A] small group of euphologists who have a
> typewriter and read a newspaper account of the thing, and -- you see, you
> really can't compare.
>
> Jacobs interposes [_sic_] after "euphologists."
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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